6th Entry

Dressing pattern of Bangladesh

      
          A traditional dress , or folk dress, expresses an identity through traditional garments. Such folk dress often come in two forms: one for everyday occasions, the other for festivals and formal wear. The people in Bangladesh usually follow their own traditional dress which mostly made in Bangladesh. Bangladesh is well for it's cloth style in the Southern Asia.
 

The female in Bangladesh mostly wear either salwar kameez or saree. However the girls who are not married yet they wear salwar kameez and after getting girls start to use saree. With the salwar kameez girls also wear orna which reffer to long scarf. And saree which add a beauty in girls is a long peace of cloth. Inorder to wear saree, paticose and blouse is needed. The saree that girls wear during marriage is different than the usual saree. The marriage costume for girls is also saree which is usually read color with heavy design on that.  http://www.discoverybangladesh.com/meetbangladesh/clothing.html    

         The traditional dress of Bangladeshi people for male is Lungi and Dhuti-panjabi. Dhuti is a long piece of cloth. To wear this one need to know how to twist this cloth around the body. Lungi is also a piece of cloth which does not have any zipper or clip to tighten this cloth. If anyone needs to wear it he just need to make the knot and need to know how to do the knot.

Further more bangladeshi male when they are at home prefer to wear T-shirt with lungi and when they are outside they prefer to wear shirt pant. if there is is any formal occasion shirt pant is mostly wear. However the traditional outfit for the boys mostly refer to Panjabi and pajama. In addition during the festivals like Eid, Puja and pohela baishakh (bangla new year) boys like to wear panjabi and pajama. The costume for the boys in the marriage ceremony is also panjabi pajama. Usually the color of the panjabi is red or white.
        
         Beside these dresses Bangladesh has also many other types of dresses. The people specially who live in the Chittagong there traditional dress is far more different than the usual traditional dress of Bangladesh. There Burma, chakma and other races in Bangladesh they have also their own traditioal dress. http://asia-bangladesh.weebly.com/dress-lifestyles-family-life-daily-life.html